Release Information

LP 1987 K.422 / Some Bizarre #WISE 3 Made in the UK
CD 1987 K.422 / Some Bizarre #WISE 3 CD Made in the UK
LP 1987 K.422 / Some Bizarre / Relativity #88561-8136-1 Made in the US
CS 1987 K.422 / Some Bizarre / Relativity #88561-8136-4 Made in the US
CD 1995 Thirsty Ear #THI 57015.2 Made in the US

Release Notes

Wiseblood is an electronic noise-rock band formed by Clint Ruin (aka J. G. Thirlwell) and Roli Mosimann. In Ruin’s words, Wiseblood is violent macho American [music] made by non-Americans.[1] The material tends toward the realm of the darkest and most sexual Foetus songs, with Mosimann’s Swans lineage showing in the slow, crushing pacing of many tracks. Thematically, Wiseblood’s lyrics center around the misanthropic exertion of power, typically via murder, sex or assault. Wiseblood existed on-and-off from the mid 1980s through early 1990s.

Dirtdish was released in 1987 by K.422/Some Bizzare as an LP, cassette, and CD. It was re-released on CD in 1995 by Thirsty Ear. The CD release of Dirtdish is Some Bizzare #WISE 3CD.

Fear Factory covered the song O-O (Where Evil Dwells) on their album Obsolete.

‘Reflex’ magazine’s discography states the initial release was in Nov 1986.

The first GB edition featured the deluxe cover, consisting of the wings on the cover being of a metallic foil, a cardboard inner sleeve,
and a sticker on the cover stating it featured Clint Ruin SFOTW Roli Mosimann.

The first DE edition featured the same cover sans sticker with a soft inner sleeve.

Subsequent re-issues on vinyl featured a simple cover where the wings were just a silver color.

Reviews

Clint Ruin, the king of deathly orchestration, the man whose music dives into the deepest reaches of the condemned soul, the composer whose arrangements play pied piper to the dark side, once again teams up with the dark industrial trudge of long-time contemporary Roli Mosimann (Swans). Dirtdish radiates a good deal more emotional force than some of Ruin’s more recent Foetus works. The songs all build on heavy, intense tribal percussion overlayed with bits of whiney distorted guitar (leads courtesy Robert Quine on Prime Gonzola and Someone Drowned In My Pool), occasional violin and Ruin’s characteristic vocal style. Dirtdish is full of Satanic religious fervor (indulge yourself with 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells) and Godbrain) that builds in an intense layered fashion that only a duo like this could pull off.